From 58734631b4233ec08b7a262587e400792f31f185 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Tridgell Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 15:13:29 +0000 Subject: Lots of changes! - add faq info on NT printer handling - add "delete readonly" option to help rcs users - add stuff to man pages on new printer options - add "proxy name resolution" option - add "command string" -c option to smbclient (thanks Ken) - split time functions into time.c - rearrange the quotas stuff a bit and fix some bugs - complete rehash of the time handling code thanks to Paul Eggert - fix nmblookup output a bit - add plp print queue parsing from Bertrand Wallrich (This used to be commit 635b56f19c817527c52e9bbde31faa6a8a47777b) --- docs/manpages/smb.conf.5 | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- docs/manpages/smbclient.1 | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ docs/samba.faq | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5 b/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5 index 933d71ff0c..f29e7b6b02 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5 +++ b/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5 @@ -459,6 +459,8 @@ comment default case +delete readonly + deny hosts directory @@ -831,6 +833,19 @@ things. path = /%S +.SS delete readonly (S) +This parameter allows readonly files to be deleted. This is not normal DOS +semantics, but is allowed by Unix. + +This option may be useful for running applications such as rcs, where unix +file ownership prevents changing file permissions, and dos semantics prevent +deletion of a read only file. + +.B Default: + delete readonly = No + +.B Example: + delete readonly = Yes .SS deny hosts (S) A synonym for this parameter is 'hosts deny'. @@ -1187,9 +1202,9 @@ order to obtain "lpq"-style printer status information. This command should be a program or script which takes a printer name as its only parameter and outputs printer status information. -Currently four styles of printer status information are supported; -BSD, SYSV, AIX and HPUX. This covers most unix systems. You control -which type is expected using the "printing =" option. +Currently six styles of printer status information are supported; BSD, +SYSV, AIX, HPUX, QNX and PLP. This covers most unix systems. You +control which type is expected using the "printing =" option. Some clients (notably Windows for Workgroups) may not correctly send the connection number for the printer they are requesting status information @@ -1235,8 +1250,8 @@ order to delete a print job. This command should be a program or script which takes a printer name and job number, and deletes the print job. -Currently four styles of printer control are supported; BSD, SYSV, AIX -and HPUX. This covers most unix systems. You control which type is +Currently six styles of printer control are supported; BSD, SYSV, AIX +HPUX, QNX and PLP. This covers most unix systems. You control which type is expected using the "printing =" option. If a %p is given then the printername is put in it's place. A %j is @@ -1881,8 +1896,9 @@ This parameters controls how printer status information is interpreted on your system, and also affects the default values for the "print command", "lpq command" and "lprm command". -Currently three printing styles are supported. They are "printing = -bsd", "printing = sysv", "printing = hpux" and "printing = aix". +Currently six printing styles are supported. They are "printing = +bsd", "printing = sysv", "printing = hpux", "printing = aix", +"printing = qnx" and "printing = plp". To see what the defaults are for the other print commands when using these three options use the "testparm" program. @@ -1946,6 +1962,14 @@ merits of each are discussed in the README file. .B Example: protocol = LANMAN1 +.SS proxy name resolution (G) + +This is a boolean that controls if nmbd will respond to broadcast name +queries on behalf of other hosts. You may need to set this to no for +some older clients. + +.B Default: + proxy name resolution = yes .SS public (S) A synonym for this parameter is 'guest ok'. diff --git a/docs/manpages/smbclient.1 b/docs/manpages/smbclient.1 index be3a953266..e0af67ca1a 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/smbclient.1 +++ b/docs/manpages/smbclient.1 @@ -44,8 +44,13 @@ smbclient \- ftp-like Lan Manager client program ] [ .B -p .I port number +] [ +.B -c +.I command string +] [ .B -T .I tar options +] [ .B -D .I initial directory ] @@ -438,6 +443,19 @@ Change to initial directory before starting. Probably only of any use with the tar (\-T) option. +.RE + +.B -c +.I command string + +.RS 3 + +command string is a semicolon separated list of commands to be +executed instead of prompting from stdin. -N is implied by -c. + +This is particularly useful in scripts and for printing stdin to +the server, e.g. -c 'print -'. + .RE .SH OPERATIONS diff --git a/docs/samba.faq b/docs/samba.faq index 6e3cf2943a..86dd48877f 100644 --- a/docs/samba.faq +++ b/docs/samba.faq @@ -548,6 +548,37 @@ properly. Samba needs to be able to switch uids on the connection and it can't if your OS has a trapdoor uid system. You'll know this because Samba will note it in your logs. +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +* 5: Problem with printers under NT + +This info from Stefan Hergeth may be useful: + + A network-printer (with ethernetcard) is connected to the NT-Clients via + our UNIX-Fileserver (SAMBA-Server), like the configuration told by + Matthew Harrell (see WinNT.txt) + + 1.) If a user has choosen this printer as the default printer in his + NT-Session and this printer is not connected to the network + (e.g. switched off) than this user has a problem with the SAMBA- + connection of his filesystems. It's very slow. + + 2.) If the printer is connected to the network everything works fine. + + 3.) When the smbd ist started with debug level 3, you can see that the + NT spooling system try to connect to the printer many times. If the + printer ist not connected to the network this request fails and the + NT spooler is wasting a lot of time to connect to the printer service. + This seems to be the reason for the slow network connection. + + 4.) Maybe it's possible to change this behaviour by setting different printer + properties in the Print-Manager-Menu of NT, but i didn't try it + yet. + + I hope this information will help in some way. + + Stefan Hergeth + + =============================================================================== SECTION FIVE: Specific client application problems ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- cgit